Appliance for preventing enuresis.



No. 714,850. Patented 1m. 2, I902.

c. ZIMMERMANN.

APPLIANCE FOR PREVENTING ENURESIS.

(Application filed Apr. 22, 1902.)

mmmb dflww ATTORNEYS UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL ZIMMERMANN, OF HEIDELBERG,

GERMANY.

APPLIANCE FOR PREVENTING ENURESIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,850, dated December 1902- Appliention filed April 22, 1902. Serial No. 104,164. (No model.)

T 0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL ZIMMERMANN, a subject of the Grand Duke of Baden, and a resident of Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Appliances for Preventing Wetting of the Bed, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an appliance for preventing wetting of the bed, which differs from like apparatus hitherto employed by the omission of all screws, and also possesses great simplicity. This appliance is shown in the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 being a side view; Fig. 2, an end view, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section.

The appliance consists merely of a springy bent wire a, on the arms of which two rubber pads b and c are adj ustably mounted. The appliance is placed on the upper part of the male member quite at the rear in such a way that the knobsf, formed on the free ends of the bent arm a, which have for their object the avoidance of any wounding by means of these arm ends, lie uppermost, and the member lies between the two india-rubber pads 17 and c. The upper rubber pad 6 is then pressed onto the member until the apparatus is fixed. Should a desire to urinate come in the night, it cannot escape, and consequently the patient awakes and can then pass the upper pad upward, which movement is facilitated by the two arms of the bent wire being somewhat pressed together, thus allowing the upper pad I) to be easily displaced, and the patient can then satisfy his requirements. When the instrument is applied, the upper rubber pad bis then retained in the fitted or applied position by the spring action of the bent wire a.

The rubber pads b and c consist, preferably, of pieces of rubber tube, through which wires d pass, which embrace at their ends the arms of the spring-wire loop a. The under pad 0 might also be attached to the bent wire 0; without this forming an essential alteration in the present invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An appliance for preventing wetting of the bed, consisting of a spring bent piece a and two pads b c adjustably mounted on the arms of said bent piece, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

CARL ZIMMERMANN.

Witnesses:

JACOB ADRIAN, H. W. HARRIS. 

